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Does email notification make your heart race? - MTTX

Posted: Apr 01, 2014

While in a report feeling I am doing pretty well, when that email notification goes off in my headphones, my heart starts to race and I know my blood pressure goes up. I dread clicking the email icon and seeing a failed audit email. Even when it is just junk mail (I classify everything from MModal in that group), it takes a few minutes for me to feel back to normal. I also hate turning on my work computer after my days off for the same reason. I don't want to read my emails. Looking for another job, but haven't found anything yet.

YES ... I can totally relate - anon

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I don't have any bells or buzzers that go off when I get an email but I keep my email up on my desk top all day while I work and periodically check it between reports. If I have an email waiting there is a red colored number next to my inbox for each email waiting. Every time I see a red number my heart starts pounding but when I see it's a mass email from corporate or AHDI a flood of relief comes over me.

I honestly never thought I would come to hate red numbers so much in my life.

That is because they have us conditioned that all email is bad - just saying

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When was the last time you actually got a good email? Something along the lines of - You are receiving a raise or thank you for your hard work or good job on your last audit? Never? This company is all stick and no carrot, therefore when we get an email we automatically assume it is bad. A pay cut, mandatory shift of hours, raising the quality percentage, failed audit, etc. Either that or the email does not pertain to us (why do we care what celebration India had in their office or what account Mmodal picked up?) Even when they try to send a good email (like the tiny match of 401K or new email system) they end up making it bad anyway (email system not working half the time and only matching once a year if that).

So to answer your question, no it does not make my heart race, it is just disheartening that all Mmodal email has to be negative. Catch more flies with honey and all that. I consider myself a positive person but apparently the management dwells on the negative.

See my post a good day at mmodal - sm

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I'm really sorry I am not alone in the misery here. I hate the way they treat us. A DOG gets treated better. Keep smacking my nose with a paper and all you get is negative results. I sit here in tears, trying to figure out how to save EVERYTHING I worked for over the years, yet still try to work and to achieve an unobtainable goal. The only saving grace I have is..My kids have moved out and have jobs, so the loss of my house will only affect me and my dogs.

Not only that, but - even after you (hopefully)

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escape from MM,you will likely still have dread even from a good new job. I haven't worked at MM now for several months and still feel queasy every time I get ready to work. PTSD. I may need years of therapy to get over it.

Same Here - Lost

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I was forced to work 3-11 and I check my computer almost as soon as my eyes open and 2-3 times before I work as I know the bad news is coming. I failed my last audit and I am afraid of losing my job and consequently my house. I already lost my car when the huge pay cut came about 5 years ago. You're right about it being only bad news. That is all we have had for 6 years or so. What happened to the company that I left my 9-5 Mon-Fri, no weekend or holiday job for 15 years ago?

e-mail - molleycat

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I don't bother to read my emails anymore. I just delete them or save them in a file just in case. I refuse to think about this place on my days off or when I'm not working period. I do the best I can with the crap I'm given and if they don't like it, well if I haven't quit already, then they can fire me. As one of the docs dictated a couple of weeks ago, "I don't given" and that's a direct quote. If they don't care why should I

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